31 hikers arrived on a beautiful Sunday morning at our meeting point. We left with cars/motorbikes around 7:40 am and met 2 more hikers on our way, one at the beginning of the road leading to Op Khan and another one on a bicycle just before our starting point. The hike started around 8:40 am and the total duration was about 5 1/2 hours.

We started to walk slowly on mostly flat terrain and arrived after around 20 minutes at the first water stream where we changed our shoes.

We then had to walk
about an hour in the river basin. Afterwards we changed back to the hiking
shoes and continued to walk uphill.

Photo by Chan

Photo by Chan

One of us lost the sunglasses and had to turn
back , but she could catch up with the group pretty quickly. After around 30
minutes uphill hiking,

Photo by Janet

we descended down to a
tomato farm where we stopped for a snack &water break.

We then continued to hike downhill and had to change back to our water shoes after around 15 to 20 minutes. We had to walk again in the river basin until we arrived at the open area where we changed our shoes in the morning and stopped a second time for snack break befor we were walking back to our starting point for around one hour.

Photo by Janet

After the hike, some of us went back to the city and some went to the Tuang Thong Canyon View restaurant where we had splendid food and some drinks.

Like this:

Related

ABOUT CHIANG MAI HIKING

Hikes on this website are open to individuals, not big groups or for commercial uses.

There is no formal membership and no need to sign up for hikes in advance. If you want to join a hike, make sure you read the general guidance on this site and the specific hike details. Then if you still think the hike is for you, just turn up.

The hikes are shared experiences, not services. Every hiker remains responsible for his or her own safety, welfare and actions at all times.

The hikes nevertheless have a spirit of co-operation. Participants respect the leadership of the hike initator(s) and comradeship with everyone on the hike.

Some hikes involve car-sharing to the start point from the meeting point. This involves individual arrangements between drivers and passengers at the meeting point. It usually works fine, but places in cars cannot be absolutely guaranteed in advance.

You are encouraged to get involved in leading and/or creating hikes when you have some experience, or to help out in other ways.